RichardSuhkoi
Airman 1st Class
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- Apr 27, 2021
Which RCAF aircraft used this pair?
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MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Are there any part numbers or inspection stamps imbedded in the panel itself?
Age range fits the Lancaster and possibly other aircraft like Ansons.
Age range fits the Lancaster and possibly other aircraft like Ansons.
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RichardSuhkoi
Airman 1st Class
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- Apr 27, 2021
I find no marks or stamps on the actual panel. It has vibration mounts.
I looked at a few cockpit photos but wonder if these might be from a remote station like bomber or navigation station?
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Nice bit of gadgetry.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Almost certainly such a panel - not nav though as he has no need for those instruments normally.
I will try and find my Canadian Lanc manual.
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RichardSuhkoi
Airman 1st Class
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- Apr 27, 2021
So maybe RCAF Lancaster?
That's very likely. Or a kind of a link-trainer.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
I looked through the Avialogs Canadian Lanc parts list and cannot see that panel but there are several other panels with that unusual anti vibration mount so that MAY suggest an Avro Canada product which brings it down to Lanc or Anson. I do not know when the Canadian Ansons were retired.
Those mounts may just be an RCAF mount so that would add a pile of other aircraft but Bolingbrokes and most others I can think of were retired much earlier. Harvards stuck around in to the 60s.
As Wurger says - it could also be from a ground trainer device.
Those mounts may just be an RCAF mount so that would add a pile of other aircraft but Bolingbrokes and most others I can think of were retired much earlier. Harvards stuck around in to the 60s.
As Wurger says - it could also be from a ground trainer device.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Many aircraft in the RCAF inventory could have used the drift sight during WW2 and postwar. Lancs are possible but so are Hudsons, Catalinas, Arguses, Caribous, Buffaloes, etc. etc.
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
I doubt the Hudsons and Catalinas were still in service in 1961 so that theoretically rules them out unless the previous owner of the panel filled the holes with whatever would fit
Arguses, Caribous, Buffaloes, were first designed well after 1940 which is a possible start date for that subpanel.
I suspect the Expediter (Beech 18/C-45) fits the date range though. The RCAF still operated some in 1970 but I do not know when they got their first
Arguses, Caribous, Buffaloes, were first designed well after 1940 which is a possible start date for that subpanel.
I suspect the Expediter (Beech 18/C-45) fits the date range though. The RCAF still operated some in 1970 but I do not know when they got their first
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Let's not rule out the possibility that some civilian types might have operated ww2 vintage aircraft and equipment well into the late 50s and 60s. Just because the Instrument has an RCAF reference number on it doesn't mean it must be limited to RCAF service, nor would I get too hung up with the year of manufacture.
The "Instrument Flying Panel on the Lancaster (pilot's notes, other photographs I have seen), looks very different than the above photograph. This from the Duxford Lancaster. Below, from another source (I can't remember). A perusal of of the Canadian Warplane Heritage Lancaster, VR-A, reveals more modern instrumentation. I could be wrong...I often am...but I do not think this panel is from a Lancaster. Mk-X or other.
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Edit: See also this link...
commons.wikimedia.org
File:Avro Lancaster Instrument Panel.jpg - Wikimedia Commons
But then, I think this photo is not correct!
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
Two throttles, two mag switches, dual controls. The only thing in common with the lanc is it is British.
Not Anson or Oxford or Mosquito.
No idea what it is.
Not Anson or Oxford or Mosquito.
No idea what it is.
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